Anna Mae’s Mac N Cheese: Recipes from London’s legendary street food truck

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Revellers can enjoy a range of delicious cheese dishes like The Annie Mac, classic elbow macaroni in a three-cheese sauce.

Of course, all of these recipes depend on you actually having some mac and cheese left at the end of your meal. She adds: “You can balance it with anything and things like nuttier cheeses or Alpine cheeses are really delicious. Goodman Restaurant has restaurants in Mayfair, the City and Canary Wharf. Photo: Hawksmoor Hawksmoor Add the pepper slices, olives and basil (reserving some for garnish) to the sauce. Stir through the drained pasta and then transfer everything into a large ovenproof dish. Sprinkle over the feta and grill for 5-7 minutes until the feta has softened and the mixture slightly browns on top. With more 250 food stalls, Glastonbury is famous for having for some of the best festival food in the world.This book is full of pimped up mac 'n' cheese recipes, things to do with leftovers (mac 'n' cheese fries anyone?) plus tips on how to make the best béchamel sauce, the perfect cheeses to use, as well as recipes for sides, sauces, drinks and desserts to serve alongside. A myriad of cheeses combine to give this old favourite a sharp tang, elevating the dish from pretty good to pupil-dilatingly good. A fine accompaniment to steak too. As ever Hawksmoor, bravo. Other famous dishes include the Goan Fish Curry – a hot spicy and irresistibly delicious dish made from tomatoes, onions, garlic, ginger, tamarind and freshly ground spices cooked in which they cook seasonal white fish served with basmati rice. Claw specialise in crab, so you've probably worked out what makes their macaroni cheese so special. We've long loved their crab fries, which come topped with beautiful fresh white crab meat, spring onions, parsley and lemon. But the macaroni cheese recently took over as our number one dish.

It offers a range French and Continental cuisine and is well known for its tartiflette - potatoes cooked with cream, cheese and bacon, topped with huge pork sausage and a white wine gravy. This year they will be by West Holts stage, on the corner after Yeomans Bridge. Anna Mae’s Mac N CheeseYou can go for more of a fondue style, with alcohol in the base: put cider through the sauce, or stir a beer through, to make a kind of aromatic, hoppy flavour.” We also do a New York deli style sandwich with pastrami mac and cheese, with Swiss cheese mixed through it.”

WARNING: not paleo 😂 I only make this on Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, so I think we’ll be OK! Boiling the perfect pasta: The pasta should be cooked in less time than expected since it will continue to cook in the oven. We recommend 4 to 5 minutes to avoid soggy pasta.We don’t need to tell you that at Twisted, we’re big advocates for piling the cheese high – and this is a sentiment Anna Mae heartily supports.

When sifting through the mountains of recipes that fill their book, I finally narrowed down my choices and went with their 'My Big Mac Greek Wedding'. The names are one of the best things about this book! Plus the gorgeous imagery of the dishes and lots of fun photos showing the team and their van all over the UK. It's really a visionary delight, and your mouth will be watering before you've even bought any ingredients. Food vendors Anna Mae's have been serving up London twisted Southern street food for a while now. Their headlining mac and cheese — often with intriguing variations such the Don Macaroni (pesto, bacon, basil) — goes down a storm at festivals and events all over the capital. Catch them with the Kerb collective, where you can also get hold of their pulled pork creations and hot dogs. You can use bone marrow, sausage, and you can put a lobster through there, which is a popular one – the options are literally endless,” she adds. My big sister Rhonda makes a version of this mac and cheese every single holiday. But when we moved to Oregon from Washington for a short time, the task fell to me. At first, I was making a cheese sauce from scratch, until one day over the phone my sister said, “Did you get the cheese soup?” I said, “Yeah, I made it.” Here's our ultimate guide on where to eat between trips to the Pyramid stage, Shangri-La or seeing some of the rumoured secret sets. Goan Seafood CompanyNow reduce the heat to low. Add all the cheese except the mozzarella, then the mustard, and stir until melted. Stir in the drained pasta. The Hawksmoor branches are well-known for their superior steaks, but their gargantuan list of sides is pretty damn hard to resist. One of the greats is the mac and cheese. The cast iron pot arrives at your table still gently rising and lowering from the heat, cheesy bubbles popping at the sides. We recommend spending at least five minutes on your steak before you even think about digging in. Get really creative with it. If you’re a blue cheese lover just wallop some of that in, and play around with it. Be experimental…you might come across a really great combination”.